Israel Radio Podcast with Yishai Fleisher

August 17, 2015. Entrepreneur Moshe Teitelbaum tells Yishai about marrying Torah values with working and living in a modern world. Himself a resident of the Satmar hub of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Teitelbaum boasts a successful career in technological communications. He describes...Download Audio The post Radio: Not an Oxymoron: Hi-Tech and Ultra-Orthodoxy appeared first on yishaifleisher.com.

August 17, 2015. Arab affairs analyst Bassem Eid discusses the ever-changing landscape of the conflict-ridden region with Yishai, sitting in for Dan Diker. ISIS is attempting to stop tourism from flourishing in the Sinai, a goal towards which Egyptian President...Download Audio The post Radio: Madness from Around the Middle East appeared first on yishaifleisher.com.

August 13, 2015. Rabbi Mike Feuer joins Yishai to talk about the weekly Torah portion. They talk about the significance of the Jewish people having at least three names. They also wonder why so many Jews forget the astounding investment...Download Audio The post Radio: ‘Hebrew,’ ‘Jew,’ ‘Israelite’ appeared first on yishaifleisher.com.

August 12, 2015. Novelist, essayist and playwright A.B. Yehoshua discusses his post-nationalist views with Yishai. At a Bar Ilan Conference on the 2005 Gaza disengagement, Yehoshua stated that the Arab connection to the concept of “homeland” continues to strengthen, while...Download Audio The post Radio: The ‘Israeli Faulkner’ on Israeli Politics appeared first on yishaifleisher.com.

August 12, 2015. The follower of the Meir Kahane ideology tells Yishai and Jeremy Saltan about taking on opponents with political theater. After Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon took measures to empty the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Matriarchs in Hebron...Download Audio The post Radio: The Umbrage of Ultra-Nationalist Baruch Marzel appeared first on yishaifleisher.com.

August 11, 2015. Mideast expert Mordechai Kedar joins Yishai to talk about some odd political developments and alliances in the region. Dr. Kedar, research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and lecturer in the department of Arabic at...Download Audio

August 11, 2015. Knesset insider Jeremy Saltan talks to Yishai about the recent ‘defection’ of the Democratic senator to the anti-Iran-agreement camp. They consider how Schumer announced his opposition to the deal, and discuss the ramifications of this development. Presented...Download Audio

August 10, 2015. JPost op-ed editor Seth Frantzman talks to Yishai about Israel’s self-flagellating reaction to recent acts of Jewish violence. On the heels of acts of terror committed by Jews, the two discuss what the appropriate national response is...Download Audio

August 9, 2015. Yehuda Hakohen, leader of the Zionist Freedom Alliance, tells Yishai about being an ‘alternative’ peace activist. He explains why prioritizing peace is an integral part of the Zionist dream, and discusses his goal to circumvent the rhetoric,...Download Audio

August 6, 2015. Hasidic blues musician Lazer Lloyd shares his spiritual journey and meditative music with Yishai. Lloyd tells of playing for the most varied of audiences and feeling the connection we all share, before explaining what he sees as...Download Audio

August 6, 2015. Rabbi Mike Feuer, educational director of Beit Midrash Sulam Yaakov, joins Yishai to discuss this week’s Torah portion of Eikev. They begin with a conversation about the impending circumcision, or “brit milah,” of Yishai’s newborn son, the...Download Audio

August 5, 2015. Yishai plays audio from his interviews with Gush Katif refugees from the immediate aftermath of the 2005 withdrawal. Speaking at the time from the Jerusalem Hyatt Regency Hotel, former resident of the evacuated Neve Dekalim community Liora...Download Audio

August 5, 2015. Yishai plays recordings from the month-and-a-half he and his wife, Malka, spent broadcasting from Gush Katif during the 2005 disengagement. The Fleishers provided their priceless, on-the-scene perspective of one of the most dramatic moments in Israeli history,...Download Audio

August 4, 2015. Israeli-Japanese Jew Dr. Kenichi Hartman talks with Yishai about the similarities — and economic ties — between Japan and Israel. Dr. Hartman, who converted to Judaism at the age of 12, has a doctorate in neuroscience from...Download Audio

August 3, 2015. Dr. Salomon Israel, researcher and senior lecturer in the Hebrew University’s Department of Psychology, joins Yishai to talk about aging. Dr. Israel, who specializes in the biology of social behaviors, is a co-author of a multi-country study...Download Audio